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AGGY also known as GREAT AGGY

Possibly born to one of Benjamin Harrison's slaves at Berkeley or another Harrison property in Virginia

Brothers and/or sisters unknown

One of 27 domestic slaves belonging to Peyton and Elizabeth Randolph

Education unknown

Spouse unknown (slave marriages not legal)

Resided on Randolph property

Children

Little Aggy (described as a mulatto; mother to Beysey, Nathan, Kitty)

Secordia (idenitified as sickly, died between 1775 and 1783)

Henry

Died 1780 in Williamsburg

Ran away from Randolph household following Dunmore proclamation

In 1775, Virginia Governor Dunmore issued a proclamation that offered freedom to all indentured servants and slaves willing to run away from their masters and fight for the British. More than 200 Virginia slaves ran away shortly after the proclamation was issued. Eight slaves from the Peyton Randolph household ran to the British. They were Aggy, Eve, Lucy, Billy, Sam, George, Henry, and Peter. By July 1776, half of the eight had returned, probably because of an outbreak of smallpox in Dunmore's camp.

Family members divided

Elizabeth Randolph eventually bequeathed Aggy and her son Henry to her niece Elizabeth Rickman. She bequeathed little Aggy and her children Nathan and Betsey to her nephew Benjamin Harrison of Berkeley. Little Aggy's daughter Kitty was bequeathed to another niece named Elizabeth Harrison.